Dr Neil Ferguson says…
A top scientist has warned two more places in England are “clearly of concern” because of high rates of coronavirus.
Imperial College London’s Professor Neil Ferguson, who was a government adviser at the start of the pandemic, says it is only a matter of time until more places impose local lockdowns as Leicester has done following a spike of Covid-19 cases.
That would be Dr “wrong about everything” Ferguson would it? While I don’t wish to poison the well here, someone with a track record as dire as this charlatan’s is, is not someone we should be paying any attention to. If this man told me rain is wet, I’d have to nip outside and check for myself.
Why is anyone giving this man airtime?
As posted elsewhere, David Icke has a better track record.
That man should be thrown into an oubliette and left there. He is an absolute menace to science and to our society. On second thoughts, I’d like to see him be thrown to Nassim Nicholas Taleb for a good savaging. In public. With popcorn available.
Ferguson is a charlatan.
Bill Gates is paying for it. Ask him.
The “more places” that Failure Ferguson says are going to become further ‘hot-spots’ will be those with a greater concentration of the so-called BAME population. Leicester is brilliant example.
At Toby’s place it’s suggested that to get Leicester locked down they tested random children (which previously they have not), when the find a positive they then test all his/her classmates to come up with a local spike of 15 New Cases, not that it’ll be doing them any harm. No doubt they could repeat this anywhere that Covid lingers on.
Probably Ferguson’s cunning plan to save his trashed reputation.
Dutch schools have now been back for a month, no social distancing, no mini-classes, no ill-effects.
o/t multiLOLZ new one for me. Standing behind the only mask wearer at Tesco, she puts her phone to the card reader ?~ ! ¿
Nothing happens confusion and embarrassment until someone says Applepay facial recognition doesn’t work with mask on.
Happily nobody sniggered.
Looking at the numbers for Leicester, the spike is largely young people, who we know are least affected. Why close everything down, when all they need to say is that there is a ‘lot of it about’ and for those at risk to be sensible and maintain social distancing???
Interesting case Neil Ferguson. I think he must have the opposite of Cassandra’s curse, Ferguson’s blessing perhaps, the blessing being of course that however consistently and catastrophically wrong his prognostications have been his next one is still believed or at least taken seriously. Strange but it does seem to be true.
His blessing is that his audience is/was of the non scientist variety and credulous. Any scientists in the audience would have challenged him. We are always asking questions. One phrase I have never been frightened of is “I do not understand that. Please explain it to me”.
Are there no criminal offences for prosecuting this dangerous individual? Failing that, no civil path to ruin him financially?
Other professions bestow a high social standing becauseof the responsibility and standards they demand and the potential consequences one accepts to one’s self when failing to uphold their traditions.
These new technocratic professions seen to be immune to the moral and legal consequences of the established professions. That really needs to change and we could start by making an example of Ferguson, his team, their financial backers and his college that affords him legitimacy. But I’d settle for just Fergie.
Yes, it’s the lack of accountability that grates.
Whilst I understand the anger pointed at this bloke, the decisions made were made by politicians. SAGE were not suggesting a full lockdown when Boris ordered it.
Contrast this with Sweden – their system allowed scientists to make the decision not to lock the country down and their politicians complied.
Our politicians did what they did due to cowardice (scared to death of the media headlines making the evil tories responsible for every single death) and also so as to not miss a once in a lifetime power trip.
Yes, true. However, they were taking advice from someone with a track record of failure. Why would any sane person do this?
Churchill (allegedly) said “never let a good crisis go to waste” and covid allowed them to do the second part of my final sentence above and make the claim ‘we were only following the science’.
I believe one of the key personal traits required to be a politician is insanity, because what I see them do and hear them say sure doesn’t seem sane to me.